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HOSE SUPPORTER.

(Application filed Apr. 12, 1895.)

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ROBERT GORTON, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOSE-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters I'atent No. 607,742, dated July 19, 1898. Application filed April 12,1895. Serial No. 545,459. (No model.)

To 'aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT GORTON, a citizen of the'United States, formerly residing at Plainfield, in the State of New Jersey, but now a resident of Newton, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

In Letters Patent of the United State granted to me December 31, 1895, No. 552,470, I have sh own a supporter of the class in which the garment to be clamped and supported is held between a button and a retaining-loop that is constricted at one end to closely engage the button. That patent provides that the button shall be of a flexible or elastic character-as, for instance, of rubber or fibrous material-and the purpose of so making it is to insure the retention of the garment without slipping and to prevent its wear and tearing. My present invention has the same objects in view and is applicable to the classof supporters mentioned,as well as to others-as, for instance, that class in which the garment is squeezed between the converging edges of the loop and is held therein.

In supporters constructed in accordance with the present invention I may employ a button of the ordinary character, and I interpose between it'and the loop a cushion of flexible or elastic materi. l-as, for instance, rubber or fibrous materialto prevent slipping, wearing, and tearing. For instance, in the first-mentioned class of supporters-via, those having a button and a copstricted loop I provide the loop interiorly with a facing or edging of such material acting in the manner suggested and constituting a cushion between which and the button the garment is held. In the second class of supporters mentioned-viz. those having a retaining loop or part with converging edges or faces between which the garment is drawn and held-I may provide the loop interiorly with a facing or edging of suitable material acting, as described, to afford a yielding or cushion grip on the garment, and thus prevent slipping and wear.

5o In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is same manner as in Fig. 1.

a View showing a section of Webbing and an attached loop and button-clasp constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 shows a loop with converging interior edges adapted to be used without a button.

In Fig. 1 I have again shown the loop as made of wire. The ends of the wire abut, as at O, at the small end of the loop. A clamp E, made in one piece and which may be of the general shape illustrated, embraces the.

smaller end of the loop in each case and has clamped between its edges (which then preferably extend slightly beyond the interior faces of the wire forming the loop) a cushioning facing or edging D. The clamp E therefore not only serves to hold the edging or facing which constitutes a flexible lining to the inner face of the loop, but also serves to prevent the spreading of the ends of the Wires which abut at O. The details of construction are, however, not material, and of course the loop may be made in any suitable way and the cushioning facing or edging clamped therein in any suitable and convenient way. In this figure I have shown a button of ordinary construction, and both the loop and button are arranged upon the webbing in the usual way and cooperate in the usual manner to hold the garment.

In Fig. 2 is shown a loop constructed in the It has, however, converging edges between which the garment is drawn and held, no button being used.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a garment-supporter, the loop having its opening contracted at its lower end, flexible cushioning material forming interior edges of the contracted lower end of the loop, and a clamp applied to the loop to hold such material in place, the larger upper end of the loop being adapted for the attachment of a supporting-webbing.

2. In a garment-supporter, the loop having its opening contracted at its lower end, flexible cushioning material forming interior edges of the contracted lower end of the loop, and a clamp applied to the loop to hold such material in place, the larger upper end of the loop being adapted for the attachment of a supporting-webbing, in combination withv a button also supported from the Webbing and loop, and a clamp embracing the smaller end coeperating with the loop, substantially as of the loop and clamping the edging in place. IO

and in the manner set forth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub- 3. A garment-supporting 100p formed of scribed my name. 5 Wire with an opening contracted at one end ROBERT GORTON.

and the ends of the Wire disposed at the WVitnesses: sn1a1ler end of the loop, a'flexible cushioning F. H. CONKLIN,

edging arranged in the contracted end of the WV. F. LIVINGSTON. 

